Chicken Fajitas with Mushrooms
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Yield: 6
Easy and flavorful chicken fajitas with mushrooms. Make for dinner or meal prep for lunch. Can also be made into lettuce wraps or a fajita bowl with rice.
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Ingredients
- 1 - 1 ½ lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts (or chicken tenders) cut into strips
- 2 bell peppers (red and green, or colors of choice) sliced
- 8 oz. sliced white mushrooms
- 1 small onion sliced
- gf tortillas, flour tortillas, or lettuce halves
- 2-3 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 lime for squeezing
Optional Toppings:
- avocado, salsa or Pico de Gallo, sour cream, shredded cheese
For the Fajita Seasoning Blend:
- 1 ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- ½ teaspoon chili powder
- ½ teaspoon paprika (You can also do smoked paprika for a smoky flavor)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ tsp ground black pepper
- dash or two of crushed red pepper flakes add more if you want it spicy
- dash or two of seasoned salt (optional)
Instructions
To Make Fajita Seasoning Blend:
- Add all ingredients to a mason jar. Close the lid, and shake until well blended. Set aside until ready to use.
For the Chicken Fajitas:
- Wash, trim, & pat chicken dry with paper towels. Slice into thin strips. Place in a Ziploc bag along with 2 tbsp. lime juice, 1 tbsp. olive oil, and all of the Fajita Seasoning blend. Shake until coated. Refrigerate and marinate for 1-4 hours.
- Once ready to cook: Slice peppers and onions. Rinse off mushrooms; chop if too large or whole. Heat olive oil in a large cast iron skillet, nonstick pan, or grill pan over medium-low heat. Sauté onions until translucent, then add in peppers and mushrooms. Cook until tender, then set aside in a bowl and cover with foil.
- Add marinated sliced chicken to the pan and sear. Once the chicken is cooked through, add peppers and onions back to the same pan to warm up.
- Meanwhile, prepare your fixings. Optional: You may want to heat your tortillas for a minute or two in a separate frying pan.
- Spoon chicken fajita with the mushroom mixture into tortillas; fold in half. Serve with toppings of choice and enjoy.
Notes
If meal prepping; keep cold toppings and tortillas separate so you can heat the fajita mixture and then top.
To make this meal even faster, you can marinate the chicken overnight so it's all ready to go the next day. This also makes for a great marinated chicken freezer meal! Simply just freeze the marinated uncooked chicken in the storage bag and pull it out on a busy night.
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